All Documentaries articles
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Reviews‘To Hold A Mountain’ review: Tender, immersive doc follows mountain life in Montenegro
Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Prize winner proves both intimate and universal
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Reviews‘Nuisance Bear’ review: Sundance US Documentary winner is thoughtful, impactful study of Canada’s polar bears
Directors Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden expand their 2021 short to impressive results
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Reviews‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist’ review: ‘Navalny’ helmer Daniel Roher co-directs toothless AI study
Roher and co-director Charlie Tyrell attempt to personalise this hot-button topic, to disappointing results
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Reviews‘Knife: The Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie’ review: Alex Gibney documents the author’s moving road to recovery
Film follows the acclaimed writer and his wife as they heal from the 2022 knife attack on Rushdie
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Reviews‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’ review: Invigorating doc celebrates legacy of the Harlem Renaissance
Filmmaker David Greaves expertly shapes footage shot by his father at a 1972 meeting of the Renaissance’s key players
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Reviews‘All About The Money’ review: Astute study of wealth, ideology and influence in modern America
Sinead O’Shea follows ‘The Edna O’Brien Story’ with impactful portrait of radical US communist James ‘Fergie’ Chambers
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Reviews‘Soul Patrol’ review: Powerful portrait of the first Black special operations unit in Vietnam
Filmmaker J. M. Harper follows up ’As We Speak’ with moving look at the cost of war
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Reviews‘One In A Million’ review: Compelling doc follows a Syrian refugee to a new life in Germany
Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes followed Syrian adolescent Israa over 10 tumultuous years
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Reviews‘Public Access’ review: Fascinating study of US community TV boom exec-produced by Benny Safdie
David Shadrack Smith’s Sundance title uses archive footage to recall the glory days of public access television
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Reviews‘American Doctor’ review: Hard-hitting doc follows three US doctors on the ground in Gaza
Poh Si Teng’s film proves an emotional gut-punch portrait of life during conflict
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Reviews‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ review: Emma Thompson exec produces immersive Glasgow protest doc
Felipe Bustos Sierra explores 2021 demonstration through interviews, archive footage and reenactments
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Reviews‘Becoming Victoria Wood’ review: Tender doc celebrates talent and tenacity of pioneering UK comic
Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Maxine Peake are among friends and colleagues paying tribute to Wood’s comedy genius
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NewsVincent Munier’s French nature doc ‘Whispers In The Woods’ makes noise with international buyers
EXCLUSIVE: Munier co-directed the 2022 Cesar-winning film The Velvet Queen
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Reviews‘Mailin’ review: Lyrical Argentinian doc explores the nature of memory in the aftermath of abuse
Maria Silvia Esteve’s visceral second feature makes its bow in IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
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Reviews‘Come See Me In The Good Light’ review: Affecting doc follows US poet Andrea Gibson’s cancer battle
’Good Night Oppy’ director Ryan White spends time with terminally ill Gibson and their partner Megan Falley
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘Flood’ review: Impactful exploration of family and faith is exec produced by Laura Poitras
Debut director Katy Scoggin’s emotional study of her relationship with her fundamentalist father now plays IDFA